Training for change

14.05.2010- Mercy Ships works hand in hand with governments to train personnel and improve awareness of health issues.

Mercy Ships provides free, specialized operations that save lives, improve quality of life, and restore hope. But we go beyond providing simple clinical delivery of much-needed and many time-unavailable operations; we also invest in the future of the nations we work in through collaboration with each local government to strengthen their local healthcare infrastructure.

 

Mercy Ships helps break the cycle of disease through prevention and knowledge. We provide training and mentoring of local surgeons and other health professionals and facilitate the World Health Organization’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training programme for local medical workers.

Our programme of training in biomedical equipment maintenance and repair as well as hospital administration also increases access to local healthcare resources.

Teams from the ship spread out into villages and towns to collaborate with in-country partners to teach basic health and hygiene, first aid, and HIV/AIDS prevention in communities.

The Mercy Ships medical and healthcare training is complimented by other projects, such as our water, sanitation, agriculture & nutrition, construction, mental illness and palliative care projects. The training provided by our teams brings long-term sustainable change.

In all we do, Mercy Ships strives to not only help with the urgent needs within a nation but to pull local professionals alongside us in our work for training and capacity-building purposes. This way, when the Africa Mercy pulls out, the work can continue for years to come.